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JOM
Volume 73, Issue 8, Pages 2413-2422Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-04715-w
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR award [OIA-1757371]
- NSF EPSCoR award [OIA-1757371]
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By tuning the interactions between different shapes of lobed particles and functional groups, we investigated the porosity of self-assembled structures. Particles with planar geometries tend to form regular structures, while particles with non-planar geometries tend to form random aggregate structures.
Colloidal particles fabricated with anisotropic interactions have emerged as building blocks for designing materials with various nanotechnological applications. We used coarse-grained Langevin dynamics simulations to probe the morphologies of self-assembled structures formed by lobed particles decorated with functional groups. We tuned the interactions between the functional groups to investigate their effect on the porosity of self-assembled structures formed by lobed particles with different shapes (snowman, dumbbell, trigonal planar, tetrahedral, square planar, trigonal bipyramidal, and octahedral) at different temperatures. The dumbbell, trigonal planar, and square planar shaped particles, with planar geometries, form self-assembled structures including elongated chains, honeycomb sheets, and square sheets, respectively. The particles with non-planar geometries (tetrahedral, trigonal bipyramidal, and octahedral) self-assemble into random aggregate morphologies. The structures formed by trigonal bipyramidal and octahedral particles exhibit smaller and homogeneous pores compared to the structures formed by trigonal planar and square planar particles. The porosity in self-assembled structures is substantially enhanced by the functionalization of particles.
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